Conservative MP Michael Fidler said today he was still not satisfied with a Foreign Office explanation that the British Ambassador in Damascus did not make a statement supporting the Syrian government’s claim that Jews in Syria are not being mistreated. In response to a letter from David Ennals, Minister of State at the Foreign Office, which said that Ambassador David Roberts did not make the statement attributed to him in newspapers. Fidler said: “Would it not be better if we had some official statement from our Ambassador, repudiating the view ascribed to him?”
Fidler noted that until Roberts makes such a statement “what he is reported to have said has caused a lot of concern among a great many people” in and out of England.
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